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Re-opening Update from Archdiocese

There will be five levels to gradually get us to the ultimate goal of Sunday Mass with a congregation.

We have been at level one for quite some time. Churches are open to our people for private prayer and confession. (** see below)

Level two will allow for the sacraments of baptism and marriage. At the moment, there is a maximum of ten attendees.

This will be followed by level three with the celebration of weekday Masses and funeral Masses with limited attendance.

Level four will permit Sunday Mass with supervised attendance. Entrance to churches will be through one door only. A greeter will be present to count the faithful as they enter. Strict cutoff will be when 25% of the church capacity is reached. At that point, it is up to the pastor to decide what to do with the overflow.

The final level, the fifth, will see us resuming our full parish Mass schedule and sacramental activity.

** Our parish will return to the regular practice of Confessions at 4 PM on Saturday’s beginning with this coming Saturday, June 6.

WHAT’S BUGGIN’ YOU, BABY? A Covid-19 Pop Music Quiz

PART ONE: Do you test positive for anything?

In the 1967 hit by Keith, what is his temperature?

In 1959, The Coasters warned us that what would “make us itch?

In that same song, they tell us about five common childhood diseases. Except for the common cold, most are now quite UN-common. How many can you name?

“________________ make you bumpy; ___________’ll make you lumpy; /
__________________’ll make you jump and twitch; //
A common cold will fool ya; / and _________________’ll cool ya; //
But poison ivy Lord’ll make you itch! //

In the movie “Holiday Inn,” there’s a production number for Valentine’s Weekend. Bing Crosby sings a love song, its lyric tells us to “Be Careful, It’s My ________________.” What?

In the Paul Simon hit from 1972, Me and Julio, down in the schoolyard, say goodbye to the “Queen of Corona.” What’s her name?

What female singer’s biggest hit was about “Fever”?

When Johnny Cash and June Carter “Got married in a fever,” what was it hotter than?

In Harry Chapin’s 1974 hit song, “Cat’s in the Cradle,” the son says he can’t go to see the father because his “new job’s a hassle” and because of what problem with his own kids?

According to the Rolling Stones in 1966, when “it gets harder ev’ry day, you hear ev’ry mother say,” what does she go “running for the shelter of”?

BONUS: What real-life drug company scandal of the late fifties/early sixties does this reference?

This immortal singer-songwriter of Country music fame first came to national attention singing another Composer’s song, called “Lovesick Blues.” His first night on the Grand Ol’ Opry, the audience demanded three encores. Who is he?

In what Elvis Presley song did “a hungry child with a runny nose” play “in the street, while a cold wind blows”?

According to the Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane, in their big hit from 1966, “White Rabbit,” the “pills your mother gives you” have what effect?

In the Pat Boone hit from 1962, who needs to come home because “your doggie’s gonna have her puppies and we’re running outta coal”?

In 1972 hit song, a problem with what body part does Jackson Browne present to his doctor?

According to the 1972 hit by Elton John, who “still feels the pain of scars that won’t heal”?

In Cher’s 1971 hit, “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves,” what does her father sell a “couple of bottles of’?

According to The Eagles in the 1977 hit “Hotel California,” what hotel guests are “Tiffany Twisted” and suffer from what kind of “bends”? (A) Highway (B) Elbow (C) Mercedes

When Jimmy Buffett, in 1977, “blew out my flip-flops,” cut his heel and had to “cruise on back home” to “Margaritaville,” on what did he cut his heel?

What was the Witch Doctor’s advice to David Seville in 1958?

BONUS: This song combines “sickness” with “social distancing.” In 1951 Guy Mitchell went to # 1 on the pop charts and Ray Price to # 2 on the country charts when they sang, in part, “I never knew that I could hurt that way,” and in the next verse, “you came back but never meant to stay.” Name that tune.

According to the Flamingoes in 1959, “though we’re apart, there’s no reason to cry.” Because why?

In a song made popular over and over again, by Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra, Bing Crosby and The Platters, and was one of Elvis’ first private recordings, although “you were on the ship and I was on the shore,” what might end our distancing and “bring you back to me”?

In what hit from 1967, did the Box Tops end their distancing, singing: “Get me a ticket for an aeroplane, / Ain’t got no time to take a fast train”?

In 1964, Peter and Gordon are not “locked away” in quarantine from Covid-19 but because they refuse to live where?

According to Ricky Nelson in 1958, where do lovers go to distance themselves and “hide their troubles away”?

In a Chuck Berry song, made famous in the 1960s by both Johnny Rivers and Lonnie Mack, the guy on the phone wants the “long distance” operator to connect him to which city?

In Shep & the Limelites song from 1961 (remade by Michael’s less famous brother, Germaine, in the 1970s), why is the singer no longer “a thousand miles away”?

While we’re on the subject, what Doo-wop group was also “A Thousand Miles Away” in 1957 and again in 1960?

On an un-released Sun Record song from 1955 that RCA Victor released as a single the next year, having “social-distanced” himself, what was Elvis trying to do when he was “travellin’ over mountains, even through the valleys, too”?

In 1969 (during the Vietnam War) where did Glen Campbell leave his 21-year old girlfriend, to go and fight?

In the early fifties both the Flamingoes and Pat Boone reached #5 on the charts with a song that sang “At the corner drugstore / Each Saturday we would meet // ----?? So, darling, as I write this letter, / here’s hoping you’re thinking of me. // What does the singer promise?

In a #10 hit from 1956, Eddie Fisher, social distancing in the Navy, sang “Write me a letter soon / and I’ll be homeward bound.” Who was he writing to?

What duo also wishes they were “Homeward Bound” in a 1966 hit song?

And, while we’re on the subject of being “home again,” what singer is “an hour away from writing / all your prayers up in the sky, // eight days on the road are nearly gone //?

In a 1959 song, “Take a Message to Mary,” Don and Phil Everly explain that they will always be social distancing. But not to tell Mary what sad fact?

What country singer country music singer a double-sided #1 hit (!!) in 1962 with “Together Again,” remade as a #1 a second time only two years later by Ray Charles?

In a 1961 movie, Connie Francis was doing the exact opposite of social distancing. “’til he holds me,” she sang, “I’ll wait impatiently,” where?

Lloyd Price, who “got the bad news that you went away,” was not “social distancing” by choice with the 1959 hit song that asked what awkward musical question?

In the Beatles’ hit from 1966, “Eleanor Rigby,” two things does Father McKenzie do as he is “social distancing”? (I do at least one of them.)

PART THREE: Calling Doctor Presley!!

In his last scripted movie, Elvis plays a NYC ghetto doctor, running a clinic along with several nuns. What is the title of that movie?

On the flip side of his two-sided hit, “Are You Lonesome Tonight,” Elvis sang the words: “Saw the fortune teller / Had my fortune read // She sent me to the doctor / he sent me straight to bed // He said, “You’re lonesome and you’re lovesick / Got your mind on lipstick?? Name that tune.

What famous - or infamous - physician is said to have supplied Elvis with limitless prescription meds and was briefly implicated in the singer’s death?

In his last single, just climbing the charts when he died, Elvis sang; “The medicine within me / no doctor can prescribe // Your love is doin’ something / that I just can’t describe.” “Ooh!” but he could “feel it,” where (the title of the song)?

Elvis seems to need a doctor himself when, on the flip side of “It’s Now or Never,” his big hit from 1960, he describes these symptoms: I ain’t slept a wink since Sunday, / Can’t eat a thing all day, // Ev’ry day is just Blue Monday / since you’ve been away. “Since you’re gone,” what’s he got? What’s the diagnosis (i.e., the title of the song)?